Freddie's Dead & Other Hits

Performer: Curtis Mayfield
Distributor: WEA Strategic Marketing

Notes: There are countless compilations of Curtis Mayfield's post-Impressions material on the market, and although any Mayfield is better than no Mayfield, few of them get the balance exactly right between his lightly funky sociopolitical anthems and his gentle, almost whispered love songs. This brief compilation has a couple of the big statements like "Freddie's Dead" and "Future Shock," as well as one of Mayfield's most beautiful love ballads, "So In Love," but most of what is here just isn't the A-list stuff, although it's hard to vote against this guy in any context; he was that good. ~ Steve Leggett

After leaving his position as leader of the Impressions, one of the most successful black vocal groups of the 1960s, Curtis Mayfield made progressive and highly influential funk/R&B records, most notably the soundtrack to the cult movie SUPERFLY. His unique, simultaneous rhythm/lead guitar style and fragile falsetto vocals have been much imitated but never duplicated. In 1990, Mayfield was the victim of an onstage accident that made him a quadriplegic, but it didn't stop him from making music. He released an album of new material in '96, though he would pass away three years later.

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